Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey, Volume III, Part 22

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869- ed
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Lewis Historical Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 650


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On May 1, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Eighty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was taken prisoner at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and was honorably discharged from the service October 4, 1862, on the expiration of his term of enlistment. He has always taken an interest in politics, being a staunch adherent of the principles of Republicanism, and has been an active factor in the management of county and state affairs. In March, 1892, Mr. Terrell left the active and strenuous political and pro- fessional life that had claimed him for so many years and came to New Jersey, where he pur- chased a beautiful estate two and a half miles from the city of Burlington, where he has since resided, leading the quiet life of a pros- perous farmer. His farm, "West Hill," con- tains about seventy acres, which he devotes largely to the culture of small fruits, etc. He is high up in Masonry, having been made a Mason while in college at Ann Arbor, Michi- gan, 1865. He is affiliated with Burlington Lodge, No. 32 ; Boudinot Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and Helena Commandery, No. 3, Knights Templar, joining the latter in 1872. He served as past grand commander of Knights Templar of Missouri Grand Commandery, 1882-83, and is now a member of the Grand Commandery of New Jersey with rank of past commander by election. He is also a member of the Grand Encampment, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Honor.


Mr. Terrell married, December 24, 1864, at South Ridge, Ashtabula county, Ohio, Julia, A. Quigley, born at Portland, New York, June 18, 1835, daughter of Captain Robert and Obedience (Everts) Quigley, the father a sea captain, engaged on steamers on the northern lakes, a resident of Chautauqua county, New York ; he died in 1836, aged about thirty years. His wife, Obedience (Everts) Quigley, was born in Vermont, 1811, and was of French de- scent. Mrs. Terrell received a thorough aca-


demic education at the Kingsville Academy. Mr. and Mrs. Terrell are connected with the Methodist Episcopal church. They had one adopted daughter, Daisy, born in Harrisonville, Missouri, November 26, 1871, died at Youngs- town, Ohio, June, 1891.


(The Jones Line).


Benjamin Jones, ancestor of Olive (Jones) Terrell, wife of Sherman Terrell, and mother of William Jones Terrell, the date and location of whose birth is unknown, served in King Philip's war ( 1675-76), and subsequent to that event was residing in Enfield, Connecticut. The "History of Enfield" states that he was of Welsh descent, but makes' no mention of his parents. He was the first settler in Somers, removing there from Enfield in 1689 and erect- ing a dwelling house about half a mile east of the present village. He and his family resided there during the summer season until 1706, when they settled there permanently, and he died in that town July 6, 1718. He served as highway surveyor and also held other town offices. The christian name of his wife was Anne; children: Thomas, see forward; Ben- jamin, Joseph, Eleazer, Anne, Levi, Abigail, Naomi, Samuel.


Lieutenant Thomas Jones, eldest son of Ben- jamin and Anne Jones, was born at Enfield, Connecticut, 1680, died there in 1763. He was a man of wealth and prominence, and was chosen first representative from Enfield to the general assembly of Connecticut after its sepa- ration from Massachusetts. In the records he is referred to as Thomas Jones, gentleman. He married, April 24, 1708, Mary, daughter of Captain Isaac Meacham; she died November 8, 1744, aged sixty years. Children : I. Mary, born April 22, 1709; married Abraham Whip- ple. 2. Jerusha, April 8, 1711; married A. Spencer. 3. Thomas, March 15, 1712-13. 4. Israel, see forward. 5. Isaac, January 29, 1717- 18; educated at Harvard College, entered the ministry and became pastor of the church in Weston, Massachusetts; died May 3, 1784. 6. Bathsheba, February 25, 1719-20; married John Rees. 7. Samuel, October 29, 1724. 8. Elizabeth, married David Kellogg.


Israel Jones, son of Lieutenant Thomas and Mary (Meacham) Jones, was born in Enfield, Connecticut, March 18, 1715, died in Bark- hamsted, Connecticut, December 28, 1798. He was the second permanent settler in Barkham- sted, settling there in 1761, and in the records is designated as husbandman. He served as constable in Enfield, 1748-49, and was a cap-


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tain in the colonial militia. He married, No- vember 9, 1744, Jemima Clark (intentions pub- lished September 23). Children: I. Samuel, born January 3, 1745-46; died September 4, 1747. 2. Mary, October 28, 1747. 3. Samuel, July 31, 1749. 4. Thomas, June 6, 1751. 5. Israel, September 21, 1753 ; served in the revo- lutionary war as sergeant in Captain Watson's company, Colonel Benjamin Hinman's regi- ment, September, 1775; as ensign in Seventh Regiment Connecticut line, 1777 ; second lieu- tenant, 1778; captain in Eighth Regiment Con- necticut Militia, same year, and attained rank of colonel ; participated in the battles of Ger- mantown and Monmouth Court House, and wintered at Valley Forge ; married, 1790, Lois Wadsworth; died in Barkhamsted, September I, 1812. 6. Jemima, June 5, 1755. 7. Submit, October 8, 1757. 8. William Clark, see for- ward.


William Clark Jones, youngest son of Israel and Jemima (Clark ) Jones, was born in Enfield, Connecticut, May 9, 1760. He was drafted August 25, 1777, and served in Captain Skin- ner's company, of which John Rockwell was lieutenant, and Simon Abel ensign ; discharged October, 1777. He married, December 28, 1784, Elizabeth Hayes, of Hartland, Connecti- cut.


William Jones, son of William Clark and Elizabeth (Hayes) Terrell, was born at Bark- hamsted, Connecticut, October 3, 1785. Later he resided in Hartford, Ohio. He married Olive Brockway, October 27, 1807; she died at Hartford, Ohio, April 26, 1813. They were the parents of Olive Jones, aforementioned as the wife of Sherman Terrell.


WIGHT Edwin M. Wight, of Somerville, New Jersey, was born in Troy, New York, October 31, 1836, son of Daniel and Sophrone ( Porter ) Wight. Mr. Wight was educated in the private schools of his native city, and prepared for college in the Troy Academy. In 1853 he was matriculated in Williams College, Massachusetts, from which he graduated, taking his A. B. in 1857. Among the close friends and companions of his college course were Rev. Charles A. Stoddard, of the New York Observer, class of 1854; Hon. John J. Ingalls, class of 1855, late United States senator from Kansas, now deceased; James A. Garfield, class of 1856, the martyred president, next whom at table Mr. Wight sat for nearly two years ; and Henry M. Alden, Ph. D., LL. D., for forty years editor of Harper's Magazine, a classmate.


Immediately after graduation Mr. Wight came to New York and began his student work in the law office of Hon. James R. Whiting, ex-justice of the supreme court, and continued with him until his death in 1872. Mr. Wight took a law course of two years in the law school of the University of Albany, where he received the degree of LL. B., and was admitted to practice in New York state in 1859.


On May 10, 1862, in the great fire in Troy, the old home of Mr. Wight's parents, his col- lection of American and Asiatic shells, of which he had made a study and had gathered in per- son and by exchanges during several years, a considerable collection, with everything of early association of school or college, including a large number of books and old Americana, were burned. The next year his parents re- moved to Bloomfield, New Jersey. In 1864 his father died in the city of New York.


During the season of 1863 Mr. Wight had with him as an associate clerk in Judge Whit- ing's office, Frederick F. Cornell Jr., of Somer- ville, and through him became interested in furnishing army supplies, particularly pressed hay in bales, which extended to a considerable business and made it necessary to visit Somer- ville frequently, and about April 1, 1865, to remove there with his mother and sister. He then began to commute between Somerville and New York, and has continued until this writing. In 1869 Mr. Wight became interested in journalism and purchased the Somerset Messenger, which he owned for two years and sold to J. Rutsen Schenck. During his owner- ship the Messenger plant was moved from the Lance building to Somerset Hall building, being the first tenant of that newly erected structure in its upper part. In 1887 the Somerset Demo- crat was founded, and Mr. Wight became interested, and by wish of its proprietor acted as its political editor from its starting. In 1903 it had become insolvent and was foreclosed. Mr. Wight made arrangements with the bond- holders and purchased the property. It is still (1910) continued by him at the old stand in the Somerset Hall building, which he owns. The present plant occupies about four times as much of the building as was occupied by the Messenger when it was published there in 1870. The Somerville Publishing Company is the name under which Mr. Wight conducts the publishing business, and the plant has fully trebled its capacity in the six years since it was taken over, while the business has more than kept pace with the growth of the plant. having customers among New York publishing


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houses and elsewhere, and a large jobbing trade.


In 1894 Mr. Wight was admitted as an at- torney and counsellor of New Jersey, and has had a considerable clientele among New York- ers, having legal business in New Jersey. He has been active in his profession in the state of New York since his admission to practice in that state in 1859.


Mr. Wight is of New England ancestry, de- scended in the seventh generation from (I) Thomas Wight, the immigrant, who was a resi- dent of Dedham, Massachusetts, and was ad- mitted as an inhabitant in 1637, having, with eleven other persons, subscribed the covenant in that year. On October 8, 1640, he became a freeman, and for six years, beginning in 1641, was a selectman of Dedham. (II) Ephraim, born in Dedham, in 1645; married, in 1668, Lydia Morse, of Medfield. His name appears among the Medfield proprietors in 1675; he was a subscriber to the building of the "New Brick College," of Cambridge ( Harvard Col- lege). (III) Daniel, born at Medfield, Novem- ber 19, 1680; married, 1721, Lydia Estey. (IV) Peter, born May 21, 1722, in Medfield; mar- ried, October 12, 1752, his remote cousin, Mary Barber, whose grandmother, Mary, was a daugh- ter of the original ancestor Thomas. Peter was a member of Captain Josiah Fuller's company, Colonel Wheelock's regiment, which marched from Medway to Providence, Rhode Island, on the alarm of December 8, 1776. By trade Peter was a blacksmith. (V) Daniel, born at Med- way, October 4, 1753; married, January II, 1781, Mary Puffer, of Wrentham, and removed with his family to South Brimfield, now Wales, in 1791, where he kept the first grist mill on Elbow Brook. (VI) Daniel, born in South Brimfield, Massachusetts, June 14, 1793, was father of the subject of this sketch.


On his mother's side Mr. Wight was de- scended in the seventh generation from (I) John Porter, of Hingham, Massachusetts, immigrant, born 1595, at Wraxall Abbey, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England, where the Porters had been seated for many generations. John, immigrant ancestor, with Rose his wife, sailed from Europe in the ship "Anne," arriv- ing at Dorchester May 30, 1627. In 1635 he assisted in the settlement of Windsor, Con- necticut, where he had lands granted to him, and died there, in 1648. Among his thirteen children was a son (II) Samuel, born in War- wickshire, in 1626. He married Hannah Stan- ley, born in England, daughter of Thomas Stanley, a younger son of the earl of Derby. He came from London in the ship "Planter,"


in 1635, and became one of the original pro- prietors of Hartford. Samuel removed from Windsor to Hadley in 1659, and died Septem- ber 6, 1689. He had a son (III) Thomas Stan- ley Porter, born April 1, 1683, who married, November 13, 1707, Thankful Babcock, born in Conventry, in 1686. He was the first town clerk of Coventry, Connecticut, a captain in the Indian wars, and died August 7, 1755. They lived near the South Coventry meetinghouse. Among their twelve children was (IV) Jona- than Porter, born March 20, 1713. He mar- ried, January 20, 1734, Sarah Ladd, born in Coventry, 1714. Among their nine children were (V) Jonathan Porter, born September 17, 1737, and (V) Noah Porter, born October 4, 1742. Jonathan married Lois Richardson, of Coventry. Among their seven children was (VI) Lois Porter, born April 17, 1759. Noah married, November 29, 1764, Submit Cooke, born April 17, 1743, daughter of Deacon Jesse Cooke, of Coventry. He died July 10, 1794. Among their seven children was (VI) Eben- ezer Porter, born April 7, 1780. Lois Porter (VI) married, February 21, 1780, Joseph Kingsbury, of Coventry, a descendant on pater- nal side of Henry Kingsbury, who came from England in ship "Talbot," to Dorchester, Mass- achusetts, in 1636. He was a lieutenant in the army of the revolution. Among their eleven children was (VII) Eunice Backus Kingsbury, born November 14, 1784. Ebenezer Porter, of the sixth generation of Porters, married, No- vember 21, 1802, his second cousin, Eunice Backus Kingsbury, of the seventh generation. They lived in Coventry. Their eldest child, Sophrone Porter, born September 26, 1803. was mother of the subject of this sketch.


James Wilson, of Birmingham, WILSON England, the founder of this family, was born in Walsall, near Birmingham, county Stafford, England, and emigrated with his family to America in 1847. He was a saddler, and established him- self in a successful saddlery hardware busi- ness. He was a Republican in politics, and attended the Methodist Episcopal church. He married, in England, Mary Ann Livsey, who was born in Walsall. Children: William, re- ferred to below; Jane, married a Mr. Frank- lin; Emma, married Mr. Marthaler ; Henry, who was killed in the civil war ; James.


(II) William, son of James and Mary Ann (Livsey) Wilson, was born in Walsall, Eng- land, May 5, 1840, and died in Elizabeth, New Jersey, March 17, 1885. He became a whole-


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sale shipper of bituminous coal, and worked up a highly successful business, supplying many of the trans-Atlantic steamship companies. He served as major of the Third Regiment New Jersey Volunteers. He married Adaline Woodward, daughter of Charles Edward and Sarah Moore, who was born in Milltown, Ches- ter county, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1840. Children : Norton Luther, referred to below ; Harry Douglass, born in March, 1863, died in February, 1903; married Minnie Fishbough, children, Ethel Corlies and Gladys.


(III) Norton Luther, son of William and Adaline Woodward ( Moore) Wilson, was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, November 18, 1861, and is now living in that city, where he is one of the leading representatives of the medical profession of Union county. On his mother's side he is related to the celebrated physicians, Drs. Woodward and Pepper, of Philadelphia. For his early education he went to the famous school conducted for so many years in Eliza- beth by Dr. Pingry, and here he prepared to enter Princeton University. Owing to busi- ness reverses in the family he was compelled to relinquish his classical studies and to en- gage in mercantile pursuits, which occupied his time for several years. He then became a medical student with Dr. Mack, at Elizabeth, and was graduated in 1884 from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, and spent the ensuing year as an interne at the Elizabeth General Hospital. In 1885 he open- ed an office in Roselle, New Jersey, and later settled himself in the practice of his chosen profession in Elizabeth, making a specialty of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Dr. Wilson has been very active in all matters per- taining to medical advancement. He is a mem- ber of the American Medical Association; of the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society ; a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine; third vice-president of the New Jersey State Medical Society; ex- president of the Clinical Society ; ex-president of the Medical Club ; member of the New Jer- sey State Microscopical Society ; life member of the New Jersey Historical Society ; presi- dent of the staff of the Elizabeth General Hos- pital and Dispensary, and also the opthalmo- logist, laryngologist and otologist of that hos- pital and of St. Elizabeth's Hospital. He is an ex-surgeon of the Newark Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary ; member of the Anti-tuber- culosis Association ; ex-member of the Board of Health of Elizabeth City; ex-president of the New Jersey Sanitary Association ; a trustee


of the Society for the Widows and Orphans of the Medical Men of New Jersey. He was also a trustee of the Elizabeth Public Library, a member of the Elizabeth Athletic Club, and the Surburban Golf Club. He is a member of Washington Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of New Jersey, a life member of the thirty- second degree, Scottish Rite Masons ; a noble of Mecca Temple of the Mystic Shrine ; and a member of the North End Improvement Asso- ciation, and also of many other organizations. Dr. Wilson is a member of the Presbyterian church. He married, February 1, 1888, Susan Smart, only daughter of George H. and Sarah A. (Smart) Griggs (see Griggs). Children : Marguerite Griggs, born February 9, 1889; Beatrice Louise, November 19, 1891.


(The Griggs Line).


George H. Griggs, of Boston, father of Mrs. Susan Smart (Griggs) Wilson, belongs to a family of very distinguished railroad people. His father was the inventor of the brick arch, the present method of welding on tires; the crossing gate and many other devices of mod- ern railroading. George H. Griggs, besides being superintendent of several railroads, in- vented a spark arrester, a coupling devise, the portable stove, and a number of other devices. He died in 1891. His widow, Sarah A. ( Smart) Griggs, is still living, aged seventy years. Chil- dren: George A., born 1859, now cashier in Savings Bank at Butte, Montana; Oscar, died in Mexico about 1901 ; Theodore Griggs, now a civil engineer in the employ of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad; Susan Smart, referred to below.


(II) Susan Smart, daughter of George H. and Sarah A. (Smart) Griggs, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, December 9, 1863. She married, February 1, 1888, Dr. Norton Luther, son of William and Adaline Woodward (Moore) Wilson, of Elizabeth, New Jersey.


COOPER The Cooper name has honorable distinction among the early set- tlers of our country. The most distinguished member of the family in Amer- ica is without doubt James Fenimore Cooper. the novelist, who is descended from James Cooper, born at Stratford-on-Avon in 1661. This James Cooper came to America before 1682, in which year he received a grant of land in New Jersey. In 1683 he bought a lot of land in Philadelphia, situated on Chestnut street, opposite the marble custom house. Sev- eral generations of this family were Quakers.


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Another early immigrant of note was Thomas Cooper, of Boston, born about 1650, probably in London. He was the founder of the fam- ous Brattle Street Church in Boston, and he inherited the "Green Dragon Tavern," another landmark from Governor Stoughton, whose niece, Mehitable Minot, he had married. Their son, William Cooper, born March 20, 1694, was ordained pastor of the Brattle Street Church in 1716. He was a graduate of Harvard, the presidency of which he afterward declined, and he married Judith Sewall, daughter of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall. The present branch is descended from a still earlier settler than either of those mentioned. Probably no fam- ily in New Hampshire can show an unbroken continuity of deacons through so many genera- tions or a higher record for probity and public service than here follows.


(I) Deacon John Cooper, ancestor of all the Coopers of Croydon, New Hampshire, was born in England, 1618. His father died com- paratively young, and his mother, Widow Lydia Cooper, married Gregory Stone. She had two children by her first marriage: John and Lydia; and six children by her second marriage: John, Daniel, David, Samuel, Eliz- abeth and Sarah Stone. The whole family of Stones and Coopers migrated to Cambridge, Massachusetts, before 1636. John Cooper be- came a man of influence in his new home, serving as selectman of Cambridge for thirty- eight years, from 1646 to 1690, and as town clerk from 1669 to 1681. He was deacon of the church there in 1688. Deacon John Cooper married Anna, daughter of Nathaniel Spar- hawk, of Cambridge, who was born in Eng- land, and came to this country with her par- ents. Children: Anna, born November 16, 1643; Mary, John, Samuel, whose sketch fol- lows; John, Nathaniel, Lydia, Anna, born De- cember 26, 1667. Deacon James Cooper died August 22, 1691, and his widow married James Converse, of Woburn, Massachusetts, and was living in 1712.


(II) Deacon Samuel, second son and fourth child of Deacon John and Anna (Sparhawk) Cooper, was born January 3, 1653, probably in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He inherited the homestead of his father, was chosen deacon of the church, March 22, 1705, and was select- man twelve years, from 1702 to 1716. On De- cember 4, 1682, Deacon Samuel Cooper mar- ried Hannah, daughter of Deacon Walter and Sarah Hastings, who was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 9, 1656. They had nine children: Hannah, Lydia, Sarah, Sam-


uel (2), whose sketch follows; Mary, Eliza- beth, Walter, John and Jonathan. Deacon Samuel Cooper died in Cambridge, January 8, 1717, and his widow died October 9, 1732.


(III) Deacon Samuel (2), eldest son and fourth child of Deacon Samuel ( I) and Han- nah (Hastings) Cooper, was born in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, March 29, 1689. He inherited the homestead of his father, which he sold in 1730 to Ebenezer Frost, and re- moved to Grafton, Massachusetts. There he became a member of the first church, formed December 28, 1731, and about a month later he and James Whipple, grandfather of Dea- con Moses Whipple, of Croydon, New Hamp- shire, were chosen the first deacons of said church. Deacon Samuel (2) Cooper was mod- erator of Grafton in 1738, selectman in 1735- 38-43; school committee in 1738; town clerk in 1739, the first to hold that office. He was evidently a man of education, for the Grafton records of 1738 contain this entry : "Paid Dea- con Samuel Cooper three pounds, four shillings for keeping school." On March 29, 1719, Deacon Samuel (2) Cooper married Sarah, daughter of Deacon Samuel and Sarah ( Griggs) Kidder, who was born in Cambridge, August 17, 1690. The children of whom we have any record were born in Cambridge: Na- thaniel, July 21, 1720; Samuel, Joseph, John and Sarah. The date of the deaths of Deacon Samuel (2) Cooper and his wife is unknown.


(IV) Deacon John (2), fourth son and child of Deacon Samuel (2) and Sarah (Kid- der) Cooper, was born at Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, March 4, 1725, and moved with his parents to Grafton, Massachusetts, 1730. After marriage he settled in Hardwick, Massachu- setts, where he lived till 1769, when he moved to Cornish, New Hampshire, the first of his line to come to this state. He remained in Corn- ish but a year, and in 1770 moved around Blue Mountains to Croydon. With his wife and eight children he settled on the farm which afterwards descended to his grandson. Dea- con Otis Cooper, Deacon John (2) Cooper and Moses Whipple were chosen deacons of the first church in Croydon in 1783. Deacon Cooper was tythingman in 1773-81 ; town treasurer in 1773 ; town clerk, 1772-73-74 ; moderator seven times, and selectman nine years. His honor- able distinction at Croydon was but a continua- tion of his record at Hardwick, Massachusetts, where he was deacon twenty years, assessor ten years, town clerk five years, selectman one year. and schoolmaster many times. On March 15, 1748, Deacon John (2) Cooper married


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Mary, daughter of Nathaniel and. Mary Sher- man, who was born in Grafton, Massachusetts, December 9, 1726. She was a cousin of the cele- brated Roger Sherman, of Connecticut. They had ten children, all born in Hardwick, Massa- chusetts : Sarah, Nathaniel, Mary, John, Joel, Huldah, Sherman, Matilda, Barnabas and Chloe. Deacon John (2) Cooper died at Croydon, New Hampshire, August 10, 1805. and his wife died there September 4, 1796.


(V) Sherman, son of Deacon John (2) and Mary (Sherman) Cooper, was born at Hard- wick, Massachusetts, April 3, 1761. He moved with his father's family to New Hampshire, settling at Croydon. He was a soldier in the revolution in Captain Joshua Hendee's com- pany, Colonel David Hobart's regiment, 1777; also in Colonel Joshua Chase's regiment from Cornish and vicinity, which reinforced the army at Ticonderoga, 1777; also in Captain Samuel Paine's company, Major Benjamin Whitcomb's regiment, for six months in 1780 for the defence of the western frontier. In 1790, according to the first federal census, he was living in Croydon and had one son under sixteen and three females in his family (prob- ably wife and two daughters).




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